Evolving open and independent ontologies
by Silvana Castano, Alfio Ferrara, Stefano Montanelli
International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies (IJMSO), Vol. 1, No. 4, 2006

Abstract: In this paper, we address the problem of evolving open and independent ontologies, by proposing a novel ontology evolution methodology called H-CHANGE and a set of related techniques. After providing a formal definition of distributed concept, we describe; change detection techniques based on semantic matchmaking for determining the semantics of change; assimilation techniques for evolving ontology metadata according to new incoming external knowledge at different integration levels, ranging from concept merging to concept alignment. Examples of evolving OWL ontologies according to H-CHANGE are also provided.

Online publication date: Sat, 31-Mar-2007

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